NIMH is hosting two Twitter chats in recognition of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. The first chat will be held Friday, May 3 from 11 a.m. to noon EST. NIMH Program Officer Ben Vitiello, M.D, from the Child and Adolescent Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch, Division of Services and Intervention Research, will field questions regarding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (

We invite you to join the chat on Friday. To follow and participate in the chat, use the hashtag #NIMHchats. You must have a Twitter account to ask questions, but if you want to simply follow the conversation, you can do so at tweetchat.com. Just put in "NIMHchats" in the top hashtag box.

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In honor of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day coming up on May 9th, NIMH is hosting a Twitter chat on childhood ADHD on Friday, May 3rd from 11 a.m. to noon EST. NIMH's own Dr. Ben Vitiello will be answering questions regarding ADHD in children and teens. Learn more: http://1.usa.gov/187ygNW

Don't forget to join NIMH this Friday, May 3rd from 11 a.m. to noon EST for a Twitter chat on childhood

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Use hash tag #NIMHchats to follow and participate in the chat. For more information: http://1.usa.gov/187ygNW

NIMH is also planning a Twitter Chat for May 8 about PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections). Watch for more details about this second Twitter Chat.